Frying Pan Anglers – a full service fly fishing shop and outfitter based in Basalt Colorado which provides guided fly fishing trips on the frying pan river, roaring fork river, Colorado river and other rivers in the Basalt area. Frying Pan Anglers carries fly fishing equipment, with Hardy fly fishing equipment, and fly fishing supplies. It provides regular fishing reports and fly fishing reports for the frying pan river, the roaring fork river and Colorado river in our area. Frying Pan Anglers is the premier fly fishing and guided fly fishing outfitter for the best quality guides and fly fishing equipment. Frying Pan Anglers provides a range of fly fishing equipment including orvis, hardy, greys, lamson, ross, galvan, and bauer fly fishing reels. In addition it carries orvis helios fly rods, hardy, greys, GL Loomis, mystic echo and St Croix fly rods. It is your one stop fly fishing shop and fly fishing outfitter in the frying pan river area for guided float and wade fishing trips and tours. It hosts excellent fly fishing guides and fly fishing tours on the frying pan river and other local waters. The guides will provide excellent teaching and coaching for clients of Frying Pan Anglers.

"The best in winter fly fishing"

The Best in Winter Fly Fishing

The Frying Pan River provides some of the best in Winter Fly Fishing. The Ruedi dam tailwater maintains a flow all winter which enables midge hatches to occur even on the darkest days at the depths of Winter.

The attraction of the lower Frying Pan for Winter fly fishing is the relatively easy access from a paved cleared road into the access road which is maintained by Pitkin County.

On the rare occurrence of heavy overnight snows which block the road, it is necessary to walk in. But that actually affords some of the best winter fly fishing as few are prepared to make the modest trek in to the flats.

Winter Fly Fishing

For Winter Fly fishing, there is either great nymphing or great dry fly fishing. The nypmph is generally with midge larva or emergers. Whereas the dry fly fishing is with floating emerger patterns or dries. The nymphing lasts longer during the day with the dry fly action persisting as long as the adults are coming off. The great attraction of winter fly fishing with midge dries is the tiny sizes the naturals can get down to. It is not unusual to see naturals smaller than #32 so fishing with such small flies and light tippet such as 8x, 9x or even 10x can be a rewarding challenge.

The great attraction of the Frying Pan flats is that there is plenty of room to play and land large fish even on the lightest tippet.

Winter Fly Fishing

No kidding. These are the fish that can be taken on the Pan in Winter. Go to our photo section for and have a look at the winter photos, or alternatively the December, January and February photos over the recent years for some more examples.

Winter Fly Fishing

So if you want to experience winter fly fishing at its best we have it here.

And if you want a guided trip to our waters on both the Frying Pan and the San Juan see our winter trip details.

"the best winter fly fishing"

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